From the work of Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Miami University- Oxford, Ohio

· Do not always act as a content authority but rather be the facilitator of students’ discovery of information.

· This includes acknowledging that you do not always know the answer.

· Encourage students to make choices about some of what they learn-Options of different types of assignments, reading, and writings.

· Present multiple ways of arriving at the same answer

· Use groups to solve problems that are purposefully made up of students that are diverse in their intellect, social skills, gender, ethnicity, age, cultural background etc.

· Use debate as a teaching/learning tool—especially issues that have more than two sides

· Use field trips to real world sites—make learning as authentic as possible

· Use guess speakers that take new and different views of issues in your area.

· Have discussions about issues that have no "right answer" Value issues are good for this.

· Strongly reinforce students that ask insightful and inquiring questions that question how or why you do things that way you do or they way they are done in your career area. Reward intellectual and social/emotional risk taking in your classroom.

· Use problem solving exercises that reward innovation and creativity—out of the box thinking

· Have international students speak or visit your class to discuss life in their countries

· Have students write test questions based on their belief of what was important to know from the "test material" covered in class.

· Use role-play that requires students to take positions other than those they might believe.